Wajahatmughal

2026 in DeFi/onchain finance is going to be awesome
- Introducing stocks and indicies to DeFi rails
- The next generation derivative products around options, interest rates/funding, perps + more
- Novel yield bearing stablecoins with yield sources coming from outside of crypto
- Complete redesigns to earning yield on crypto native assets
- Vaultification & Perpification of everything
- Widespread Insurance coming to DeFi protocols
- Risk management tools including widespread tranching
- Futarchy token designs, with value accrual going to just 1 layer
- Onchain credit markets and credit instr

Actual question
If you had the chance to buy $BTC at sub $50k today BUT you couldn't touch it for 5 years, would you?

Hyperliquid has a 6-7x multiple on @Lighter_xyz based on Revenue
So should $LIT be worth 6-7x times less?
Is it really that simple?

Things I'm excited for in 2026
- The continued growth of stablecoins outside of USDC and USDT
- The growth of non-USD stablecoins onchain within DeFi including CHF, GBP, EURO and others
- Perpification of everything including new stocks, indices, ETFs, more commodities + others
- Tokenised equities onchain in DeFi
- Composable trading markets
- New protocols to farm with some juicy airdrops!
- Novel newer derivative instruments
- New DeFi sectors to explode in growth including credit/undercollateralised money markets, shariah compliment DeFi products etc.
- Yield on non crypto assets in De

YTD returns, just WOW
BTC -4%
ETH -10%
HYPE 0%
S&P 500 16%
NVIDIA 30%
GOOGLE 64%
AAPLE 47%
TESLA 28%
META 10%
AMAZON 2%
GOLD 70%
SILVER 137%